Apparatus for applying labels or wrappers to blocks, packages, or tins, or other containers of material.



' W. & H. ROSE.

APPARATUS FOR APPLYING LABELS 0R WBAPPERS T0 BLOCKS, PACKAGES, 0B TINS,

OR OTHER CONTAINERS 0F MATERIAL.

APPLIUATIOIT FILED AUG. 4, 1810.

Patented Sept. 13,1910.

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W. & H, ROSE. APPARATUS FOR APPLYING LABELS 0R WRAPPERS TO BLOCKS,PACKAGES, 0R TINS,

OR OTHER CONTAINERS 0F MATERIAL.

APPLICATION rum) AUGA, 1910.

970,353. I Patented Sept. 13,1910.

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W. & H. ROSE. APPARATUS FOR APPLYING LABELS 0R WRAPPERS T0 BLOCKS,PACKAGES, 0R TINS,

OR OTHER CONTAINERS 0F MATERIAL.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 4, 1910. 970,353. Patented Sept. 13,1910.

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XNE "cams PlfE RS co., WASHINDYON, o. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

.WILLIAM ROSE AND HENRY ROSE, 0F GAINSBOROUGH, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FOR APPLYING LABELS OR WRAPPERS T0 BLOCKS, PACKAGES, OR TINS',OR OTHER CONTAINERS OF MATERIAL.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WVILLIAM ROSE and HENRY Ross, subjects of the Kingof Great Britain and Ireland, both of Albion WVorks, Gainsborough, inthe county of Lincoln, England, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Apparatus for Applying Labels or WVrappers to Blocks,Packages, or Tins, or other Containers of Material, of which thefollowing is a specification.

Our invention consists of improvements in apparatus for applying labels,or wrappers, to blocks, packages, or tins, boxes, or other containers ofmaterial, of the kind described in the specification of British LettersPatent N 0. 27,722 A. D. 1907 granted to us wherein the labels, orwrappers, for the blocks, packages, or tins, boxes, or other containers.(which we will for brevity hereinafter refer to as boxes) are fed into atrough through which passes, or pass, an endless chain, or endlesschains, havin projections on it, or them, to convey the labels, orwrappers, to a gumming, pasting, or other cementing, device, and has forits object to make the apparatus more efficient in its operation.

WVe will particularly describe our invention with reference to theaccompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 shows in side elevation and Fig. 2 in plan the device forapplying gum, paste, or other cement, (hereinafter referred to as thecementing device) to the labels, or wrappers. Figs. 3 4 and 5 showdetails of the said cementing device.

The cementing device is of the kind wherein the cement is supplied frombelow upward, thus avoiding the deposit of cement on the apparatus whichis liable to occur when the cement is applied from above downward, andaccording to our invention is arranged as follows:-The cement is takenup from the cement trough 1, by a roller, 2, and applied to ribs, orprojections, 3, which extend only partly around a roller 4, the otherportion of the roller being gapped, these ribs, or projections, 3, passthrough slots 5 in the table 6 provided with guides 7 and 8 betweenwhich guides the labels, or wrappers, are fed. By the rotation of theroller 4 the ribs, or projections 3 come in contact with ribs, orprojections, 9, on a roller 10 which is rotatably mounted above thetable 6, the said ribs, or projections 9 extending around the roller 10to an extent Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 4, 1910.

Patented Sept. 13, 1910. Serial No. 575,565.

corresponding to the length of lines of cement to be applied to thelabels, or wrappers. The roller 10 rotates twice for each rotation ofthe roller 4 and the projections on the chain, or chains 11 and 12, areso arranged that there is no label, or wrapper between the rollers 4 and10 when the ribs, or projections 3, on the roller 4 are passing incontact with the ribs, or projections 9 on the roller 10 as shown inFig. 3 of the accompanying drawings, and there is a label, or wrapperbetween the rollers 4 and 10 when the gaps in the roller 4 are passing,as shown in Fig. 5 of the accompanying drawings, so that during oneportion of the rotation of the roller 4 the ribs, or projections 9 onthe roller 10 first take cement from the ribs, or projections 3 on thesaid roller 4, and, during the other portion of the rotation of theroller 4, no part of it is in contact with the underside of the label,or wrapper, and the ribs, or projections 9 on the roller 10 apply, tothe upper side of the label, or wrapper, the cement previously taken upfrom the ribs, or projections 3 of the roller 4. To assist in carryingforward the labels, or wrappers, there may be, at any suitable part, orparts, of the roller 4 circular ribs 13, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5 ofthe accompanying drawings, opposite gaps 14, as shown in Fig. 2 of theaccompanying drawings in the cement supplying roller 2, so that the saidcircular ribs 13 do not receive cement, and a gap, or gaps 15, as shownin Figs. 2 and 4 of the accompanying drawings, is, or are, left at therequisite places between the series of ribs, or projections 3 and 9 onthe rollers 4 and 10 respectively to allow of the passage of the chain,or chains 11 and 12. To the underside of the table 6 may be secured aplate 16 having projections 17, as shown in Figs. 3 4 and 5 of theaccompanying drawings, adapted to scrape off any cement that may havecrept on to the sides of the ribs, or projections 3 on the roller 4.

The several rollers can be driven from any suitable rotating part of theapparatus so as to give the proper relative movements of the chain, orchains, and rollers, such for example, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of theaccompanying drawings, in which a spur Wheel 18, secured to the shaft19, engages with an intermediate spur wheel 20 which transmits rotarymotion to a spur wheel 21 on the roller 4 the latter spur Wheel 21transmitting its rotary motion to spur wheels 22 and 23 respectively.

After the cementing has been done, the labels, or wrappers, are fedforward to the platform 24, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of theaccompanying drawings, the said platform 24 having a hole 25 in itthrough which the boxes and labels, or wrappers are pushed into a moldcarried by the mold-wheel, not shown.

What we claim is 1. In apparatus of the character described, thecombination with a slotted table, of a cementing mechanism, saidmechanism comprising rollers respectively below and above the tablealong which table the labels or wrappers are adapted to be fed, each ofsaid rollers having projections extending only partly around therollers, the projections of the lower roller adapted to pass through theslots in the table and register with the projections on the upperroller, one of said rollers rotating twice for each rotation of theother roller, the lower roller applying cement to the upper roller, andthe upper roller applying cement to the labels or wrappers,substantially as herein described.

2. In apparatus of the character described, the combination with aslotted table over which the labels or wrappers are adapted to pass, ofa cementing mechanism, said mechanism comprising rollers disposed aboveand below the table, each of said rollers having peripheral projectionsextending partially around the same so as to leave gaps in the remainingportion of the roller, the lower roller having its projections operatingthrough the slots in the table, and the upper roller being of lessdiameter than the lower roller, and rotating twice for each rotation ofthe lower roller, means for applying cement to the lower roller, andmeans for rotating said rollers.

3. In apparatus of the character described,

the combination with a slotted table over which the labels or wrappersare adapted to pass,v of a cementing mechanism, said mechanismcomprising rollers disposed above and below the table, each of saidrollers having a plurality of spaced peripheral projections arrangedside by side and each extending part-way only around the roller, saidprojections adapted to register during the rotation of the rollers, theupper roller being of less diameter than the lower roller and adapted tomake two revolutions to one revolution of the lower roller, means forapplying cement to the lower roller, and means for rotating the rollersin opposite directions.

4. In apparatus of the character described, the combination with aslotted table, over which the labels or wrappers are adapted to pass, ofa cementing mechanism, said mechanism comprising rollers disposed aboveand below the table, each of said rollers having peripheral projectionsarranged side by side and extending partially around the roller so as toleave gaps in the remaining portion of the roller, the lower rollerhaving its projections operating through the slots in the table,circular ribs spaced apart on the lower roller registering with the ribsof the upper roller and adapted to assist in the feeding of the labelsor wrappers, means for applying cement to the lower roller, and meansfor rotating said rollers.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WVILLIAM ROSE. HENRY ROSE;

WVitnesses to the signature of the above named William Rose:

CHRISTOPHER DoBBY, JosnPH WVIsEuAN.

Witnesses to the signature of the above named Henry Rose:

ERNEST OCTAVIUS GEORGE, J osnrn: WISEMAN.

